The guests of CNOOC enjoyed a night of delicious food, wine and top-notch entertainment and relaxation in the high-end service provided by Gu Kun.

The next day, it was the opening ceremony of Lanfang Petroleum Company's official oil sales to the outside world.

The ceremony was held near the huge new wharf in the north of Lanfang Port – an oil tanker wharf that had been built since 1998 and took two or three years to build. Anyway, there is no hurry, basically the Lanfang Oilfield is exploring and constructing, and the wharf here is also slowly being built together.

Of course, the pumping and irrigation facilities at the wharf can definitely be used to load other liquid cargo ships, but in addition to oil/refined oil, there are no other bulk liquid cargoes that can be shipped in Lanfang.

With a staggering 300,000 tonnes of berths, the terminal can accommodate almost all of the large VLCC-class tankers built after the 90s. The number of berths has also reached two, ensuring that there is a backup, and it can also ensure that the oil production rate of the Lanfang Oilfield is full, and not too much capacity will be wasted.

At present, the measured reserves of the Lanfang oilfield are only 3 or 4 billion barrels, and if the share of the Malay exclusive economic zone that can be cooperated with in the future is also transported through the Lanfang port, the total historical reserves will be 5 billion barrels. (Gu Kun boasted that the Lanfang oilfield itself has reserves of 5 billion barrels, which is exaggerated by about half, which is for publicity, to enhance Lanfang's tyrant attributes, and to strengthen netizens' stereotypes of Lanfang's personas.) ）

According to the practice of countries where most of the land is freehold and mineral resources are permanently vested in the landowners, the ratio of mining and storage is generally set at 60 or 70 years. Some very Buddhist countries even have a mining-reserve ratio of 90 years, in order to save some mining equipment and construction scale. After all, digging slowly can reduce the construction of infrastructure, improve the reuse rate of mining facilities, and fully depreciate.

On the other hand, at the beginning of the 21st century, people's thinking is still stuck in the thinking that "there will be an oil crisis in the future, and oil will become more and more expensive", so many large oil countries that have fallen into the resource curse in order to maintain oil prices and hoard oil until it is more expensive in the future, and then dig it is generally a relatively conservative method. From the big dog to Abu Dhabi to Kuwait, they basically did it simply and rudely, and they refused to dig up the existing oil reserves for 70 years.

But Gu Kun obviously did the opposite on this issue, so that when the decision was made, the people who worked with him were a little incredulous - Gu Kun directly chose the shortest production-reserve ratio of about 35 to 50 years.

That is to say, let the people of CNOOC not save money when building drilling platforms and related supporting facilities, and how to repair the scale and how to dig oil quickly, even if there is a slight suspicion of duplicate construction.

All this investment is only to dig up the oil of Lanfang as soon as possible in about 40 years.

For the people of CNOOC, of course, it is impossible to ask for it, since everyone thinks that the human economy will not be able to get rid of the heavy dependence on oil in the next sixty or seventy years, and even if there is new energy, it will be more expensive, and the sooner the oil is dug up, the cheaper it will become...... Of course, CNOOC hopes to buy more in the early years.

What's more, Gu Kun asked them to increase the scale of construction, and also helped CNOOC solve more jobs and labor needs, and also expanded infrastructure investment, where can Party A, such a good landlord?

Therefore, in the past three years, the people of CNOOC have almost respected Gu Kun as their own father, and feel that the cooperation with Gu Kun is too open, and the country should vigorously support this kind of goodwill friend with a heart towards China, and it is best to do its best to protect an old friend like Gu Kun, and it is best to let Gu Kun's family be hereditary in Nanyang.

But from Gu Kun's point of view, of course, he knew that he had taken a big advantage in this kind of planning - as a reborn, Gu Kun had twenty more years of foresight about the future development speed of new energy technology and the relationship between oil supply and demand than any other earthling.

He knows that shale oil, which is not available today, will be forced out of actual investment by high oil prices in ten or eight years. Although shale oil has little combat effectiveness, the future of new energy vehicles/machines, catalytic hydrogen production with high solar energy conversion rate, and various measures will make oil far less "scarce" than people predict in the future.

(Gu Kun wasn't betting on the collapse of oil prices around 2020, and he didn't live to see it then.) This price drop is also temporary and is caused by a black swan event. Only the price drop brought about by scientific and technological progress is permanent and irreversible, and Gu Kun is betting on the prophet of science and technology rather than the prophet of events)

Therefore, it is already very good to change careers after 40 years of digging oil, and when Gu Kun is in his early 60s, he will not need to live on oil at that time.

With such a great determination, the reserves of the Lanfang Oilfield must be pumped out according to the scale of 90 million barrels per year, according to the international standard barrel of 7 barrels about one ton, that is, 13 million tons of oil will be sold every year, even if it is loaded with 300,000-ton VLCC tankers, it will take about 50~60 ships (300,000 tons of VLCC itself still has 42,000 tons of dead weight, in fact, it can be loaded with less than 300,000 tons of oil)

However, oil tankers cannot enter the port and leave the port, and the key depends on the pumping capacity of the terminal facilities. The Chinese are more industrious and efficient, and the first-class oil port berths controlled and managed by the Chinese can probably pump 50,000 tons of crude oil to the VLCC every 24 hours, plus the entry and exit ports, each berth can only receive one ship per week.

In this way, the annual oil production capacity of 13 million tons will also support the output of a 300,000-ton VLCC berth. Lan Fang built two 300,000-ton wharves, which seems to be a little wasteful.

But Gu Kun considered that if only one dock was built, in case of unexpected trouble, there would be no backup, which would easily cause losses.

For example, although there are never earthquakes in Lanfang, the southern edge of Indonesia, thousands of kilometers to the south, is a splicing part of the earth's crust, and Indonesians often have disasters. Although the vibration wave does not affect the Lan side, the tsunami is easy to propagate, and even if it has been lowered from a tsunami to a "big wave" when it turns two corners to the Lan side, it may cause damage to the dock facilities.

If a wharf is broken, it will be repaired in rotation, and the oil depot will not be full and there is no place to install it, which will be wasteful and pollute the environment.

On the other hand, Gu Kun is sure that after the operation of Lanfang's oil port improves, as long as there is a cost advantage and it is convenient enough, the Malays from neighboring countries may also repair pipelines and borrow Lanfang's oil port terminal to ship.

Even Brunei, a long-established oil-producing neighbor, has not been able to make progress in recent years, refusing to spend money on building large oil tanker terminals because the geographical environment is not good enough, and the ports there cannot stop VLCC-level oil tankers at all, only less than 100,000 tons.

In fact, the natural geological conditions of Lanfang's port are not much better than those of Brunei. If you count on natural factors, these potential anchorages in the north of Lanfang's main island will definitely not be able to develop a 300,000-ton oil tanker terminal, and it is not because Gu Kunken spent money on infrastructure construction, built a longer trestle bridge while dredging and digging deeply, and transformed nature to build such a large port.

As long as Gu Kun does a good job, in the future, those Bruneians who think "it's better to build than to buy" will definitely feel that it is not cost-effective for their oil port to continue to maintain when their own port is aging and in disrepair.

Who makes the Bruneians completely unambitious, they are typical of falling into the "curse of resources", because the oil money comes quickly and then give up the struggle.

How can he be as inspirational as Gu Kun, he is so rich with oil alone, and he works so hard to develop, and even in order to transform from an oil tycoon to a luxury tycoon, he often works tirelessly to personally interact with top celebrities in Europe and the United States for in-depth social interaction for media exposure to maintain the popularity of traffic.

Other short-sighted oil tycoons in the world have no idea how hard Gu Kun works!

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"It's been three years to have today's scene, it's not easy. Gu Kun's handwriting is really big enough, other customers have never seen the investment in supporting wharves, pipelines, and storage and refining facilities so fast. Not to mention, it has the aesthetic sense pursued by industrial files, not only practical, but also comfortable for tourists. ”

At the ceremony, because it hadn't started yet, Mr. Yang took the assistant around him to observe the environment, and then went to the table for a while. Between enjoying and playing, the inner emotion is also spontaneous.

How many years, I am not used to it, I have never felt that industrial buildings can also have a magnificent beauty, but to Lanfang, it looks very imposing, and the Burj Al Arab Hotel that has been opened for nearly two years, and the Lanfang Tower, which has been under construction for nearly two years, such a match contrasts with each other, which stimulates the kind of steampunk romance in men's hearts.

The 300,000-ton tanker is not far from the luxury wonder area, and it is not close to it, whether it is on the Lanfang Tower or in the north-facing rooms of the Burj Al Arab, you can see such a magnificent ship, which has become a sight in itself.

The bigger the tonnage, the better, and the more turrets, the better. Even if he knows that this is a vulgar oil tanker, it is not elegant, but as long as a man puts on the posture of standing on the balcony and pointing at the country, his body will honestly want to see this vulgar romance.

It's like a child who has received the education and indoctrination of "only reading is high", and he says that he looks down on laborers, but when no one is around, he will still pass by the excavator on the road and secretly take a second look. Chinese culture has not dared to mention this kind of violent beauty for a long time because of the repression of weak Confucian consciousness, and Gu Kun provides an environment for guests who are very honest in their bodies.

It's not funny.

The ceremony finally began, and Mr. Yang was also invited by the master of ceremonies to the podium, and Gu Kun's speech quickly pulled him back from his contemplation.

“...... Today, I would like to express my personal gratitude and that of the royal family to every employee and hard worker of CNOOC who have made extraordinary efforts for the Lanfang shallow sea oilfield project in the past three years.

It was their dedication and hard work that made it possible to see everything we see here today. In the future, we will do more to give back to our contributors and promote further friendly cooperation and mutual benefit......"

Then, Gu Kun first asked people to announce the list of a group of CNOOC personnel who had been set to change from oilfield exploration and development employees to long-term daily maintenance and operation employees in the future, and fulfilled the promise of allocating villas to these people in Lanfang on the spot.

The employees from the north cheered and were very excited.

After announcing the award, Gu Kun, under the leadership of the staff, cut the ribbon for the official opening of the oil port terminal and saw off the first batch of oil tankers loaded with VLCCs to set sail.

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